Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.

[Felmon Davis <moelmoel2714@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Curt wrote:

> On 2022-02-12, Felmon Davis <moelmoel2714@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Greets!
> >
> > Sitting in a hotel in Hamburg, Germany, thankful for Firefox-esr which provides
> > the page necessary for logging into the network. I´m on Debian 10.
> >
> > this miracle of connectivity doesn´t seem to happen with Brave browser or Iron.
> >
> > (a) what is the mechanism FF uses for this feat?
> >
> > (b) can it be replicated in Brave and Iron (which I generally prefer)?
> >
> > I admit Brave is often a bit touchy about accessing pages where it suspects
> > security threats.
> >
> > f.
>
>
> Some techniques are given below (I don't know how effective they are,
> though).
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/CaptivePortal

interesting!

I tried this line at the command line (derived from your reference):

ip --oneline route get 1.1.1.1

that did yield the gateway.

maybe coincidence but my connection immediately collapsed and I had to 
log back in.

can´t see why the already present connection would break because of it 
though.

I´ll play again (or some other time). but seems this should work.

f.

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Felmon Davis

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